Re: [xsl] Formatting XSL for XML to CSV translation

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> <xsl:for-each select="xml/
If that's what's in your input I suppose it can't be helped but the
producer should not be generating an xml element called xml (or
beginning with x m l ) such names are reserved by the XML spec.

> Unfortunately, this means that each value ends up on its own line. 

white space nodes in the stylesheet are ignored  (except in xsl:text)


so

   <xsl:value-of select="@field1"/>
   <xsl:value-of select="@field2"/>

wouldn't generate a newline, but you have

      <xsl:value-of select="@field1"/>,
      <xsl:value-of select="@field2"/>,

so the text node isn't white: it has a comma, a newline and some spaces
so it is kept.

instead do

   <xsl:value-of select="@field1"/>
   <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
   <xsl:value-of select="@field2"/>
   <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>

Now all the text nodes are white and you can indent to your heart's
content.

David

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